CVE-2024-22033
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe OBS service obs-service-download_url was vulnerable to a command injection vulnerability. The attacker could provide a configuration to the service that allowed to execute command in later steps
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceThe obs-service-download_url component in Open Build Service (OBS) contains a command injection vulnerability. An attacker can provide malicious configuration to the service that gets executed in later processing steps, allowing arbitrary command execution on the system.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Check if Open Build Service is installedLook for OBS-related packages or services on the system using your system package manager (e.g., rpm -qa | grep obs, dpkg -l | grep obs, or systemctl list-units | grep obs)Affected if Open Build Service or any obs-service-* packages are installed on the system
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Check if obs-service-download_url component is presentSearch for the download_url service file or package: locate obs-service-download_url, find /usr/lib/obs/service/download_url, or check package lists for obs-service-download_urlAffected if The obs-service-download_url service file or package exists on the system
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Identify the installed OBS service versionQuery the package version using your package manager (e.g., rpm -qi obs-service-download_url or dpkg -s obs-service-download_url) and compare against any available version information from your vendor or OBS project repositoriesAffected if A version of obs-service-download_url is installed and no vendor patch has been applied
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Check for configuration files used by the download_url serviceLook for configuration files in /usr/lib/obs/service/, /etc/obs/, or project-specific service configurations that invoke download_url, as these are where malicious configuration could be injectedAffected if Configuration files or service definitions for obs-service-download_url are present and the service processes untrusted input
The system is affected if obs-service-download_url from Open Build Service is installed and processes configuration that could contain unsanitized user-controlled input.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement strict input validation and sanitization for all configuration parameters passed to the obs-service-download_url service. Avoid passing unsanitized user-controlled input to shell execution functions, and apply principle of least privilege to the service account.
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